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The Transactor Magazine

The Transactor magazine started as a 2-page newsletter dated April 30, 1978 and was published throughout the 1980's. One of the noted C64 hardware-hacking magazines, it was originally published by Commodore Canada. It was purchased from BMB Compuscience, the parent company, by the entire editorial team in April 1987 and sold to Antony Jacobsen & Ben Lewis, Croftward Limited (the publisher of Commodore Computing International among others) in November 1988. Croftward continued publishing both ...



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Transactor, Volume 4, Issue 5. October 1983. The MANAGER Column // CompuKinks // BASIC // Commands and statements // Arithmetic Operators // Special Symbols // Reserved Variables // Heirarchy of Operations // BASIC 4.0 disk commands // Additional B Series Commands // String Functions // Arithmetic Functions // Mathematical Functions // Status Variables ST, DS & DS$ // Secondary Address Table // Printer Control Characters // 8032 Screen Control Characters // Error Messages // Sprite Design...
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Transactor, Volume 7, Issue 2. GAMES FROM THE INSIDE OUT // TransBASIC installment 10 LDVN, LSEC, LWRITE, LLIST, RESTORE, CLRA, CGOTO, CGOSUB, CRUN, CRESTORE, SPEED, TRAP, ERROR, ERRLIN (Nick Sullivan) // The ATARI ST notebook (Jack Cole) // Commodore 128 Disk Boot Basics (Jim Butterfield) // New Loops: the c128 BASIC stack (Jim Butterfield) // Eliminating SAVE@ and other 1541 bugs (Phillip A. Slaymaker) // Format Track 36 (David A. Hook) // An Amiga Parallel Printer Cable (Steve Michel) //...
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Transactor, Volume 7, Issue 4. GIZMOS AND GADGETS // TransBASIC installment 12 - STRING$, UNEW, FREE, FACT, FAST, SLOW, DATAFY, (Nick Sullivan) // Telecolumn - First Transactor Online Conference // Build a modem emulator (Bob Jonkman) // Universal RS-232 cable (Martin Goebel) // A $2.00 Printer Interface Reset Switch (Miklos Garamszeghy) // The Commodore 64 Capacitance Meter (Jim Barbarello) // Commodore 64 Frequency Counter (Lorne Klassen) // An inexpensive teaching robot for an inexpensive...
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Transactor, Volume 7, Issue 6. SIMULATIONS AND MODELLING // Smile! You're on RLE! (Christopher Dunn) // Beyond Bulletin Board Systems (Ranjan Bose) // Commodore in Europe: An international comparison of price and availability (Miklos Garamszeghy) // Provoking Thought (Chris Miller) // Random Number Generation in Machine Language (Gregory D. Knox) // N-Body Simulator for the C64 (Richard Lucas) // A Two-Button Mouse (Anthony Bryant) // Universal EPROM programmer update (Tim Bolbach) // Help!...
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Transactor, Volume 9, Issue 4. The ML Column - crunching using Huffman encoding (Todd Heimarck) // The Edge Connection - Experiences with a RAM expansion unit (Joel M. Rubin) // The C64 Power C Shell - with notes on modifying the shell for REU users (Adrian Pepper) // Inside GEOS 128 - using 80 column mode (William Coleman) // Loadermaker - easy GEOS info sectors (Nicholas J. Vrtis) // An introduction to GEOS files - using the high level disk routines (Francis G. Kostella) // RAMifications -...
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Transactor, Volume 9, Issue 6. The ML Column - two kinds of numbers [prime detection] (Todd Heimarck) // The Edge Connection - Societies, Shows and disk drive voodoo (Joel Rubin) // The One Megabyte C64 [internal expansion of C64 to 512KB) (Paul Bosacki) // RAMfinder - identify, stash & fetch [REU detection routines] (Ian Adam) // Encryptor - password protection for the C64 (Jim Frost) // Pop-ASCII for the Commodore 64 - a handy pop-up utility (Peter M.L. Lottrup) // Combiner - a utility...
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Transactor, Volume 6, Issue 3. LANGUAGES // TransBASIC installment 5 - L. (labels) , LGOTO, SGOTO, SGOSUB, TOKEN$, VAR, INSTR, PLACE, ASN, ACS, PRINT@, CLESID, FREQ, PUWID, FIFREQ, ADPUL, ADSAW, ADTRI, NOWAV, NOI, PUL, SAW, TRI, TEST, RING, SYNC, GATE, ATT, DEC, SUS, REL, RESON, VOL, FILT, TRDOFF, TRDON, HP, BP, LP, POTX, POTY, OSC3, ENV3 // The Atari 520ST - an overview ( Dave Gzik) // Doing away with drama (Chris Zamara) // C Power - a users review (Richard Evers) // Commodore 128 - Keywords...
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The Transactor, Volume 3, Issue 06. June 1982. Faster than a speeding Cathode Ray // Deriving Mathematical Functions // CB2 amplifier // SuperPET RS232 interface // Connecting VIC-20 to color monitors // Pretty Printing (Jim Butterfield) // Compiler Comments (Jim Butterfield) // BASIC labels re-revisited (Charles A. McCarthy) // 4022 Printer Notes // Turning the switch... Allow your PET - Using the BSR-X10 home automation system (Kevin Erler) // Machine Language Auto-locstion (Jim Butterfield)...
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Transactor, Volume 8, Issue 1. MATH // A real shuffle routine (Thomas W. Gurley) // Function Manipulation: Roots & Integrals (Eric Giguere) // Full Array Math Operations on the 64 (Richard Richmond) // Faster Square Root for the C64 (E.J. Schmahl) // Complex Number Arithmetic for the Commodore 64 (Thomas Henry) // FAC1 Facts [using BASIC floating point routines from machine language] (John Houghton) // High-speed integer multiply and divides (Donald A. Branson) // Secondary Address Bits...
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Transactor, Volume 5, Issue 5. HARDWARE AND PERIPHERALS // The Commodore DOS : a review of two books - Anatomy of the 1541 disk drive & Inside Commodore DOS (David A. Hook) // Machine Language For the Commodore 64 and other Commodore Computers: a review (David A. Hook) // Commodore 16/plus-4 memory maps (Jim Butterfield) // The MANAGER Column (Don Bell) // Subroutine Eliminators (Jeff Goebel) //Introducing TransBASIC - extending C64 BASIC - IF/ELSE, EXIT, GROUND, FRAME, TEXT, CRAM, CLS, ADD...
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Transactor, Volume 7, Issue 1. REAL LIFE ROM / KERNAL ROUTINES // TransBASIC installment 9 DELAY, SLIDE, MAKE, CENTRE,FILE, INITFP, FPLOC, SCAN, ALPH$, UCALPH$, NUM$, RVS$, BUILD$ (Nick Sullivan) // Longer life for your 64 and 1541 (Robert V. Davis) // Matrix Manipulator (Richard Richmond) // Jim Butterfield's Complete C128 Memory Map // The C128 - you can bank on it [using c128 memory banks] (Jim Butterfield ) // Getting the C128's CP/M+ into gear (Clifton Karnes) // C128 RAM disk (Noel Nyman)...
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Transactor, Volume 8, Issue 3. A switchable RS-232 interface // Bullet Proof Computers [metal oxide varistor & heat sink mods] (Evan Williams) // The 1581 Disk Drive - a technical evaluation (M. Garamszeghy) //CP/M and the 1581 disk drive (M. Garamszeghy) // Programming the 1541 (Frank DiGioia) // Auto Transmission for the C64 - remove Auto RUN from BASIC programs (Doug Resenbeck) // Common Code [check machine language programs for duplication] (Jack R. Farrah) // Getting Around with GoGo...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 08. January 1980. Re-DIMensioning arrays // dynamic LOADing // Cursor Positioning // BASIC and the machine language monitor // TRANSACTOR - a philosophy // POP a RETURN and your stack will feel better // Disk Merge // MICRO-GO 9L: a review // Supermon 1.0 // RS-232C: an overview (W.T. Garbutt) // Program Plus: Saving machine language routines with BASIC programs (F. VanDuinen) // Formation of the Commodore Education Advisory Board // Disk Notes.
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Transactor, Volume 9, Issue 5. The ML Column - big numbers (Todd Heimarck) // The Edge Connection - GEOS 128.0, ZOOM, Macros, radio (Joel Rubin) // Inner GEOS - a look at how GEOS operates (William Coleman) // 1541/1571 DOS M-R Command Error - a caveat for multiple byte reads (Anton Treuenfels) // C128 Simple Disk Monitor - extending the built in monitor (Anton Treuenfels) // HCD65 Assembler Macros - making use of assembler pseudo-ops (Robert Rockefeller) // Implementing a RAM disk - for Abacus...
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Transactor, Volume 5, Issue 2. THE TRANSITION TO MACHINE LANGUAGE // The MANAGER Column (Don Bell) // MAILPRO 64 - a review (Chris Zamara) //PERSPECTIVE : to GET or not to GET?... a useful trick (Elizabeth Deal) // All About Commodore BASIC abbreviations (Louis F. Sander) // How BASIC works (Mike Todd) // Messing with the stack (Garry G. Kiziak) // The Un-Token Twin's - a method to list programs from memory or disk (Richard Evers) // Merging BASIC programs (Glen Pearce) // An introduction to...
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Transactor, Volume 9, Issue 1. ScrollDir - scrolling disk directory program for the C128 (Miklos Garamszeghy) // Multitasking on the C128 (Mike Mohilo) // Exploring SUBMIT - notes from the CP/M Plus workbench (Adam Herst) // A Machine Language Input Routine (Garry Kiziak) // Sprite Rotation - a new twist [arbitrary rotation of C64 sprites] (Jim Frost) // Structured DATA and seeding RND (Audrys Vilkas) // C64 Hex File Editor (Bob Kodadeck) // On the C Side... A C follow up and some REU notes...
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Transactor, Volume 7, Issue 5. MORE LANGUAGES // Telecolumn #2 // An Introduction to Machine Language Programming on the Amiga (Rick Morris) // Amiga Programming Concepts (Chris Zamara & Nick Sullivan) // A tale of two C's: review of Super C and Power C (Adam Herst) // A Comparison of Language Speeds on C64 (Anton Treuenfels,Donald Piven, Brian Junker) // CP/M Block Allocation Calculator (Miklos Garamszeghy) // Compatability and Operability of the C128 CP/M+ operating system (Ralph A....
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The Transactor, Volume 3, Issue 04. Jan 1982. Cassette Notes // Weekday Calculator // Steve Punter's BBS // Disk Uers' notes // CONCATenating programs // COLLECT DOS command // Keyword Abbreviations // Keyed Random Access for the PET/CBM (Glen Pearce) // ROM sockets (S. Donald) // 4032 program conversions (Joe Ferrari) // Half a dialogue - INPUTting & reading keys (Jim Butterfield) // Word Count 9 (David A. Hook) // review of SX-100 IEEE Modem software (Don White) // Dump-mate - a...
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Scans of the cover disks of Transactor Magazine.
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Transactor, Volume 7, Issue 3. PROGRAMMING THE CHIPS // TransBASIC installment 11 - PLOT, GCLR, GCOL, UPPER, LOWER, DEFAULT, LINE, SLINE, DLINE, NLINE, QLINE, CHAR, SCHAR, BAR, SBAR, DBAR, NBAER, GSAVE, GLOAD, SIZE, LMAR, GPRINT, ERASE, PATTERN (Nick Sullivan) // EXPO 86 - Vancouver, BC. Commodore and IBM head-to-head // The Comspec AX2000: 2MB Expansion RAM for the Amiga (Chris Zamara) // A Peek at Amiga Disk Structure (Betty Clay) // Disk Copier Comparison - Diskmaker v3.3, Keymaster, Copy II...
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Transactor, Volume 4, Issue 3. April 1983. The WordPro Book Of Tricks (Donna Green) // The MANAGER Column : c64 version arrives (John Stoveken) // TPUG Library Naming Conventions (Mike Donegan) // Sweet Sixteen (Jim Butterfield) // VIC 20 Screen Centering (Peter J. Lear) // Catstrapolator - extrapolating information from your disk catalog // Making Friends With Sid pt 2 (Paul Higginbottom) // New Character sets on the Commodore 64 (Jim Butterfield) // Commodore 64 Programmable Character Editor...
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 10. March 1979. An Exercise in PET Machine Language (Jim Butterfield) // New product - PET PILOT // improved tape drive hardware fix.
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 06. October 1978. Programme overlays on a PET // Abbreviating BASIC Keywords // Simulating a calculator on your PET.
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The Transactor, Volume 3, Issue 03. October 1981. Copying 4040 to 8050 and vice versa // IEEE timeout defeat // Comal-80 is here! // Pacific Coast Computer Fair // CBM 8010 Auto-Answer circuit // Convert programs to WordPro (Paul Higginbottom) // Some observations on using CBM 8032 and DOS 2.0 (Sieg Dalu) // Jim Strassma's SUPERSORT // First Programming Steps (Jim Butterfield) //Screen Editing (Jim Butterfield) // review of SWARM-100 : Swap a ROM module for PET/CBM (David Hook) // Bulletin...
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Transactor, Volume 5, Issue 1. SOUND AND GRAPHICS SPECIAL // The MANAGER Column (Don Bell) // Four Wordprocessors for the Commodore 64 - Easy Script, Paperclip 64, Script 64, Wordpro 3/plus 64 (George Shirinian) // The New Commodore Computer - review of 264 and 364 (Colin Thompson) // Subroutine Eliminators (Jeff Goebel) // A Quick Musical Tour // WAVES for the 64 - simulates the sound of waves breaking on the shore (Chris Zamara) // Programming Sound on the VIC 20 (Dave Gzik) // Sound Effects...
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Rivista "Transactor per Amiga - La rivista dei programmatori di Amiga", n° 6, 1989. Buona parte dei contenuti sono tradotti dalla rivista canadese " Transactor for the Amiga". Questo fu l'ultimo numero; la rivista venne poi unificata con " Amiga Magazine ", dove divenne un inserto.
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The Transactor, Volume 3, Issue 01. May 1981. List of different PET BASIC versions // Microchess conversion // 8032 reset box // 8032 IRQ // PHS contest results // The BMB String Thing - Block Get & Instring // Machine code to DATA statements // PET BASIC label support revisited // The commodore 8010 modem (Gord Campbell) // spooling disk files to printers // POKE OPEN files // Some Commodore disk utilities // Cursor Coding // Tax Ontario 1980 // 202X Bar graph printer // Biocompatability...
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Transactor, Volume 6, Issue 1. MORE PROGRAMMING AIDS & UTILITIES // The MANAGER column - transferring records from one disk to another (Don Bell) // TransBASIC installment 3: CURSOR, CLOC, COLSPR, SSPR, CSPR, XSPR, YSPR, XYSPR, WITHIN, XLOC, YLOC (Nick Sullivan) // SAVE with replace exposed (Charles W. Whittern) // Disk Tricks (Scott MacLean) // Diskbusters! - review of DI-SECTOR, Master Copy, Program Protection Manual for the C64, The Software Protection Handbook, SUPER CLONE aka THE CLONE...
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Transactor, Volume 6, Issue 6. REAL LIFE APPLICATIONS // TransBASIC installment 8 INLINE, OLD, INPN, INPA, SELECT, WHEN, OTHERWISE, ENDSELECT, HCLR, MCON, HOFF, MSET, MTEXT, MCIRCLE, MDISC, MRECT, MBOX, MDRAW, MCOLOR, MCHK, (Nick Sullivan) // The Amiga: a user's perspective (Chris Zamara) // The Amiga: A programmer's perspective (Chris Zamara) // Amiga DOS & CLI commands (Roy Reddy) // Amiga Editor Commands (Roy Reddy) // EDIT: Amiga's line orientated editor (Roy Reddy) // Pick Areas and...
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Transactor, Volume 5, Issue 3. SOFTWARE PROTECTION AND PIRACY // Two Reviews: PAL64 and POWER 64 (Chris Zamara) // The MANAGER Column (Don Bell) // Hardware Corner - user port LED display controlled from BASIC (Domenic Defrancisco & Chris Zamara) // Quadra 64 - edit 4 programs on your 64 simultaneously (Daniel Bingamon) // Your BASIC monitor pt 2: The Disassembler (Bob Drake) // Picprint: a high-resolution screen dump utility (Chris Zamara) // Comparing Two BASIC programs (Jim Butterfield)...
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Transactor, Volume 6, Issue 4. IMPLEMENTING THE SCIENCES // TransBASIC installment 6 - USE, MOVE, FILL, CAT, DOS, DEV, DLOAD, DSAVE, DS$, DS, JUMP, CALL, LINE, BEEP (Nick Sullivan) // Sky Travel - a review (Richard Evers) // Accurate sum of squares (John Jay Hilfiger) // The Projector - as close to 3d as possible short of holographics (Ian Adam) // Microsecond Timer for the C64 (Zoltan Szepesi) // Projectile Motion (Karl J. Hildon and Chris Zamara) // SID's programmable filter (Karel Vander...
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Transactor, Volume 8, Issue 2. OPERATING SYSTEMS // Mouse Driven Menus for C64 and 1350 mouse (Anthony Brant) // Garbage Collector Revealed (Michael T. Graham) // SYS 65478: taking a new look at an old dog [KERNAL CHKIN] (Miklos Garamszeghy) // Kernal LISTEN and it's relatives (Eric Germain) // Commodore external RAM expansion cartridges (Dale A. Castello) // In the CP/M mode (Clifton Karnes) // Using CP/M plus user areas (Adam Herst) // Assembly Language Disk Error Recovery (Robert V. Davis)...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 07. December 1979. Block Get routine (Bill MacLean) // PET Memory Maps // index of Vol issues 1-6.
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 09. February 1979. Explanation of PET Memory.
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Transactor, Volume 9, Issue 3. The ML Column - Voting simulation (Todd Heimarck) // Keep-80 - non destructive windowing on the C128 (Richard Curcio) // Kernal++ - add a dos wedge to C64 Kernal (William Coleman) // Far-SYS for the C64 [calling M/L programs in 'hidden' RAM from BASIC] (Richard Curcio) // C128 Parallel printer interface - emulating a parallel interface via the user port (Bill Brier) // GEOS label names - cross reference (Francis G. Kostella) // Gamemaker's ML grab bag - splits,...
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Transactor, Volume 5, Issue 6. PROGRAMMING AIDS AND UTILITIES // Introducing VERIFIZER // The MANAGER COLUMN - home budgeting (Don Bell) // TransBASIC installment 2: CURSOR, CLOC, DOKE, DEEK, SET, CLEAR, FLIP, CHECK, AWAIT, KEYWORDS // a new wedge for the Commodore 64 - adding commands by trapping syntax errors (Brian Munshaw) // The Commodore 64 Keyboard pt 2 : KEYWIZARD - an amazing keyboard driver (Aubrey Stanley) // Linked Lists pt 2 (K. Murray Smith) // A High resolution graphics utility...
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The Transactor, Volume 3, Issue 05. March 1982. ON GOTO ELSE // PET/CBM EPROMS // ROM Switch & Utility Switch BASIC loader // BASIC plotter (Paul Higginbottom) // The Machine Language Monitor - and introduction // Features of the 6845 Video Controllor (Jim Holtom) // Getting usable video signals from 12" monitor PET/CBMS (Jim Law) // PRINT-AT routine (Jacques Lebrun) // The Print Mint (Jim Butterfield) // Programming Tips - Jumber Juggling, Variable Flip-Flop, Screen codes to ASCII,...
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Transactor, Volume 4, Issue 2. January 1983. 1983 CES Las Vegas // The WordPro Book Of Tricks (Donna Green) // Toronto Bulletin Board Numbers // The MANAGER Column : database software (John Stoveken) // Jim Butterfield Centrefold // The four-poke screen marker (Jim Butterfield) // Determining Screen Size (Chris Siebenmann) // Computer Technology - report on the use of hardware and software activuies at the post- diploma level at Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology in Oakville...
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Rivista "Transactor per Amiga - La rivista dei programmatori di Amiga", n° 5, 1989. Buona parte dei contenuti sono tradotti dalla rivista canadese " Transactor for the Amiga".
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Transactor, Volume 8, Issue 5. Fast String Search with Binary Trees (Herb Rose) // Computers & Copyrights (Tony Romer) // Matrix Mathematics for the C64 (Don Currie) // Read Infocom - decoding Zork vocabulary (Thomas W. Gurley) // Interfacing two Commodore 64s [null modem] (Jack Bedard) // The link between C and Assembly (David Godshall) // Maintaining the POWER C library (Eric Giguere) // A better syntax for Kernal Device I/O (Keath Milligan) // A RAM expansion module bug on the C128 (D.J....
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Transactor, Volume 6, Issue 2. NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS // How to get the most out of CompuServe (Robert Adler) // TransBASIC installment 4 - STRIP$, CLEAN$, USCROL, DSCROL, LSCROL, RSCROL (Nick Sullivan) // Telecomputing: from concept to connect // An introduction to Modems (Jeff Goebel) // Using a modem and the "Punter BBS" (Geoffrey Walsh) // Data Communications (Robert W. Dray) // The Modem and RS-232C (Mario Marrello) // A Comedy of errors (David Sale) // World Connection...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 11. December 1980. WordPro and the NEC Spinwriter // PET Music & Poor Man's D/A Converter // Computers at Waterloo // Text Editor (Jim Butterfield) // Commercial Salvaging of Information from 2040 Diskettes // High resolution graphics for the PET (Don White) // Card printing utility (D. Hook) // Simple 8010 Modem Programs (Jim Butterfield) // An Incomplete PET/CBM Bibliography.
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Transactor, Volume 4, Issue 1. September 1982. The WordPro Book Of Tricks (Donna Green) // The MANAGER Column : database software (John Stoveken) // Disk Un-Assembler (Paul Higginbottom) // Universal String Thing (Jim Butterfield) // File Chain Tracer (Bill MacLean) // Translation Arrays // Filing It - how to input & output using devices (Jim Butterfield) // SuperPET Terminal Program (John Stoveken) // APL And The SuperPET (Eike Kaiser) // Tiny-Aid For VIC-20 (David A. Hook) // ASCII modem...
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The Transactor, Volume 3, Issue 02. August 1981. Disabling the STOP key // Wordpro and the 40-8032 // CBM 8010 notes (Paul Higginbottom) // the 2nd International Commodore PET show (Paul Higginbottom) // Video Interface for the 40/80 column PET/CBMs (Ted Evers) // new DIAL-A-ROM models from Kobetek Systems // Joystick/Keyboard routine (David Hook) // What hardare do I have? (Jim Butterfield) // The fat 40 - a new generation 40 column PET (Jim Butterfield) // The SuperPET: a first look (Joseph...
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 01. April 1978. Bits And Pieces // PET Matrix-Decoded Keyboard
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 11. April 1978. PET Interrupts (Brad Templeton) // PET to IBM Selectric interface.
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 06. November 1979. Inside the 2040 disk drive (Jim Butterfield) // Printer Formatting // Bullet-proof INPUT // Screen I/O // Entry Points for original/upgrade ROM (Jim Butterfield) // Infinitely Long PET programs (Henry Troup) // PET DOS Support Program (R.J. Fairbairn) // Random Access File Indexing (Jim Hindson) // Indexing Programmes on Cassette (Michael Casey) // on-site use of a microcomputor for archeological fieldwork - East Karnak // Egypt (G.D. Hathaway).
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Rivista "Transactor per Amiga - La rivista dei programmatori di Amiga", n° 2, gennaio/febbraio 1989. Buona parte dei contenuti sono tradotti dalla rivista canadese " Transactor for the Amiga".
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Rivista "Transactor per Amiga - La rivista dei programmatori di Amiga", n° 3, marzo/aprile 1989. Buona parte dei contenuti sono tradotti dalla rivista canadese " Transactor for the Amiga".
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Rivista "Transactor per Amiga - La rivista dei programmatori di Amiga", n° 4, 1989. Buona parte dei contenuti sono tradotti dalla rivista canadese " Transactor for the Amiga".
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Transactor, Volume 8, Issue 4. The Projector Part II - [Hidden Lines & C128 port] (Ian Adam) // Computer Generated Holography on a C64 (Patrick Hawley) // CIRCLES for the C64 (Anthony Bryant) // Inside C128 CP/M : Supporting more foreign disk formats (Mike Garamszeghy) // CP/M 3.0: Plus redirection and batch processing (Adam Herst) // Square Roots in Machine Language (Jim Butterfield) // PLACEHOLDER for the C64 (Paul Blair) // Review: Turbo Processor for the C64 - 65C816 with 64K battery...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 04. August 1979. Computed GOTO // Indenting program text (B. Seiler) // more PET quirks (Rick Ellis) // IF-less decisions // disabling the STOP key // A fast sort (Jim Butterfield) // PET CRT fix.
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 01. May 1979. Watching a cassette load (Jim Butterfield) // Decimal/Hex conversion // the LIST chain // 16/32 K PET Notes (Jim Russo) // review of BASIC for Home Computers.
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Rivista "Transactor per Amiga - La rivista dei programmatori di Amiga", n° 1, novembre/dicembre 1988. Buona parte dei contenuti sono tradotti dalla rivista canadese " Transactor for the Amiga".
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Transactor, Volume 9, Issue 2. The ML Column - division algorithms compared ( Todd Heimarck ) // Fast Graphics Primitives (Robert Huehn) // Cycle Counting explained, with a program that does it for you (David Sanner) // I Do Windows (on the C128) - a program for paneles print positiong (Jim Butterfield) // RS-232 Hardcopy - talking to serial printers (Joseph Buckley) // Star Cart - computing the relative position of stars (Steven Shervais) // Disabling "i0" on the 1581 (M.Garamszeghy)...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 03. July 1979. The APPEND wedge (B. Seiler) // PET Variable Storage // IEEE BUS handshake routine in machine language // a few routines from PET BASIC.
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 12. February 1981. More On The NEC Spinwriter // Card Utility Listing // using labels in PET BASIC (J. Hoogstraat) // BASIC 4.0, DOS 2.0 and the relative record system // BASIC 2.0 to BASIC 4.0 conversion - 40 column (Paul Higginbottom) // DOS 2.0 commands from BASIC 2.0 // DOS bugs (Mark Clarge & Paul Higginbottom) // The PET NMI vector (Henry Troup), A few entry points - 1.0,2.0,4.0 ROMS (Jim Butterfield) // Fun with WAIT statements (Henry Troup) // 8032...
Topics: basic, dos, command, disk, file, record, data, rel, lda, print, relative record, logical file,...
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 03. July 1978. A Description of the IEEE-488 BUS for the PET // PET interfaces and lines to the outside world.
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 07. December 1978. Appointment of Karl Hildon as editor // UNLIST revisited // Poor man's D/A convertor // ON..GOTO statement.
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 09. May 1980. LIST in Lower Case // PET Machine Language I/O // An Instring Utility // PET as an IEEE Logic Analyzer // COMPUTER PHILOSOPHY // Book Review: "PET and IEEE-488 bus" // BASIC program cross-referencing (Jim Butterfield) // Better Auto - Repeat // The UNWEDGE - a tape append and renumber program // RESTORE DATA Line Program (Paul Barnes) // Visible Music Monitor Review (W.T. Garbutt) // Machine Language Case Converter (S. Donald).
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 02. June 1979. PRINT speed-up // Merging PET programs (Jim Butterfield) // PET to Teletype interface // Additional I/O interface // PET Reset revisited (Bill Twyman) // Memory locations for ROM upgrade on PET computers.
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 04. August 1978. Additional BASIC commands // Input/output Command Parameters // Tape Cassette Operation for Files // Logical File Operations // Data INPUT // data OUTPUT // polling techniques.
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 02. June 1978. Useful notes on the PET computer // Comparison between PET BASIC and FORTRAN.
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Transactor, Volume 8, Issue 6. Cellular Automata - mathematical artforms for the C64 (Ian Adam) // CP/M Plus + CoNIX = CP/M Plus+ - a CP/M enhancement with a UNIX flavour (Adam Herst) // Great Assignment! - easy in-program expression evaluation for the C64 & C128 (Paul Durrant) // Give me a BRK! - invisible subroutines on the C64 & C128 (Tom Hughes) // Micro-Lisp version 2.5 [review] (Nicholas Vrtis) // An algorithm for 6510 mnemonics - the challenge: to find the ideal mnemonic to...
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Transactor, Volume 5, Issue 4. BUSINESS AND EDUCATION // The MANAGER Column (Richard Evers) // Subroutine Eliminators 64 (Jeff Goebel) // Office Automation for the nineties (Major B.L. Olmstead) // Dynamic Expression Evaluation in BASIC (Chris Zamara) // Compound Interest and you (Richard Evers) // GETSTRING for the 64 (Dave Gzik) // Sorting on the Commodore 64 and PET/CBM (Gary G. Kiziak) // Phile Master - simple filing system (Robert Drake) // Home Budget (Brian Dobbs) // Your BASIC monitor...
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Transactor, Volume 4, Issue 4. July 1983. First Annual Toronto Computer Fair // The WordPro Book Of Tricks - history of the WordPro series (Donna Green) // Superkey-64 (Darren Spruyt) // Re-decoding the 8032 keyboard (Greg Beaumont) //Making Friends With Sid pt 3 (Paul Higginbottom) // Sound Help (Darren Spruyt) // Sprite Palette for the Commodore 64 (Paul Higgimnbottom) // Commodore 64 Graphics Utility (Brad Templeton) // Raster interrupts on the commodore 64 pt1: introduction and theory (Dave...
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 05. September 1978. New products for the Commodore PET 2001 //Attaching a video monitor to PET // Delays // Plotting // Inputting // Data File Errors // Tape Head Care // PET Memory Map // Machine Code Environment // Conway's game of Life for the PET.
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Transactor, Volume 4, Issue 6. January 1984. First Annual World Of Commodore show // Book review - megabucks from your microcomputer (Melissa Gibbons) // The MANAGAR Column - c64 gift list & Re-Field - version of Manager to run on 8000 series machines // Updating programs (Bob Drake ) // A Mid Strings Night Dream (Richard Evers) // The INPUT glitch (Bob Drake) // Subroutine Eliminators (Jeff Goebel) // Three GET subroutines (Richard Evers) // Master Menu Driver types 1 & 2 (Richard...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 10. September 1980. REMAINDER$ // BASIC 4.0 preliminary note // Controlling Garbage Collection (Henry Troup) // Software review: Eastern House Software Assembler macro packages - Graphics Drawing Compiler & PET Music and Sound Composer (Gord Campbell) // More On Screen PRINT (John McDonald) // True ASCII Output (Henry Troup) // PET 2040 Disk Buffer I/O routiner (W. Hoogstraat) // PET to Heathkit H14 Printer Serial Interface (Sheldon H. Dean) // Filestatus...
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The Transactor, Volume 2, Issue 05. October 1979. Case Convertor // Memory MAP: Orignal ROM to upgrade ROM // using 2nd cassette buffer RAM for BASIC // cassette file END markers // program LOAD errors on 8k PET // Screen PRINT routine // IEEE-488 bus // DRIP - Delete Rest of Instructions in Program // 8K PET Memory Cross Reference // Technical comment on FOR/NEXT loop structures (Jim Butterfield).
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The Transactor, Volume 1, Issue 08. January 1979. Hardware fix for BAD READ from tapes.
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Transactor, Volume 6, Issue 5. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE INTERFACING // TransBASIC installment 7 - AUTO, DEL, REN, RESTORE, GOSUB, GOTO, RANDOM, FIRST$, BF$ (Nick Sullivan) // The commodore 128: Impressions and Observations (John Holttum) // Machine Language - Maxims for the Commodore 128 (Jim Butterfield) // Commodore 128 Memory Map (Jim Butterfield) // MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface (Richard Evers) // Real World Interfacing with the REL64 cartridge (James E. LaPorte) // 1541 RAM...
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